Women Men and Power

by Hilary M. Lips

This book explores the issues of how relationships between women and men are shaped by differences in personal, collective, and institutional power. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874849160
• ISBN13: 9780874849165
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 245 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

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Women, Men, And Power

Women, Men, And Power explores the inequality of personal, collective, and institutional power that exists between women and men. Professor Lips analyzes gender power relations in the context of family, sexuality, the workplace, and politics, as well as examining topics such as * cultural images of power * power motives * strategies of interpersoanl influence * feelings of effectiveness and control * stable power structures of dominance Ranging beyond the mainstream American context, the author provides numerous cross-cultural examples and citations to research carried out in other countries. --- from book's back cover